Small car for 2019 = midsize car 20 years ago and large family car in Europe. I’m married with an 11 and 13 year old. We just drove 1000 miles to Florida in comfort in my GTI. Flat roof means my large Yakima Skybox fits nicely on top. Gives up an inch or two of legroom to the Jetta but it has more headroom and…

My wife is nearly 6 feet tall and can sit comfortably in front of the car seat in a GTI. You’d have to be pretty tall to run into serious problems, and you give up a lot of cargo space. 

I think gti’s and R’s are quite presentable 

The thing about modern performance cars is they’re all so damn fast it’s really hard to get anywhere near the limit on public roads. It’s also really unwise. I mean, I imagine running an M5 near the limit on this road would be just terrifying.  This thing occupies that sweet-spot that old fogies like me remember being…

“Considerably” larger is a stretch. Less than 2" more legroom in a car that’s mechanically identical otherwise.

Kind of like a kid who used black magic marker to give himself a beard.

Gli is around 25,555 the GTI is around 27,555. That’s more like 10%

The 2019 VW Chargemaro

This. VW’s have much more comfortable interiors. Better seats, better sound insulation, and much better manual transmission shifter feel. I got 197,000mi out of my last VW before trading it

GLI: 37.5" legroom, 37.2" headroom, 14.1cuft cargo

Is there any reason to buy this over the GTI? 

This. I can’t see any reason to buy this over a GTI

Still just rather have the Golf GTI. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am a bit biased but a Chevy SS would be a good fit here plus they come in some good colors, though the good colors tend to be the ones on the lower end of production. the back seat it really big and a 6'0" person can fit behind the driver easily. I am right about 6' and I don’t have the seat all the way back. Lots…

My Golf R babies. And has a manual. And VW, I think, has the best seats for tall people.

To be fair... the engines only stopped being reliable after the Toyota technicians serviced them, lol.

I am one of the affected scion owners. 15 miles after i left the dealership i had the same symptoms as everybody else. It’s been a month, toyota corporate is brushing their shoulder, and the dealership isn’t compensating besides free labor to install a new engine, engine/block on my expense. First time i am posting…

*Laughs in Golf R owner*

Ex wife said I could not go racing my motorcycle two weeks before our wedding. Instead I went two months before to Topeka by myself (Bad idea) and watched Comet Hale-Bopp all the way home, portent of the future.  

In most cars I’ve owned you can’t really tell, but in most cars the oil is still in pretty good shape when you change it. In my Civic’s case, running full synthetic, the oil isn’t a issue after doubling what the car’s computer thinks is the life of the oil, though the filter has probably reached its limit.